Cootie Williams And His Orchestra – Cootie Williams In Stereo (1958/2015) [HDTT DSF DSD256/11.20MHz]

Cootie Williams And His Orchestra – Cootie Williams In Stereo (1958/2015)
DSF Stereo DSD256, 1 bit/11,2 MHz | Time – 21:07 minutes | 3,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 21:07 minutes | 473 MB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTT | Booklet, Front Cover | © High Definition Tape Transfers
Recorded: March 5, 25, April 8, 1958 at Webster Hall, New York; Transferred from a RCA 2-Track Tape

With the possible exception of cornball trumpeter Clyde McCoy, nobody could impart humanistic sounds to a plunger mute like Cootie Williams. Certainly nobody could make a trumpet growl like he did, full of feral shrieks and blasts and vocal tones galore. As a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra during its heyday, Williams was big enough potatoes that when he left Ellington to join up with Benny Goodman in the early ’40s, it prompted a tune titled “When Cootie Left the Duke.” No two ways about it, the man could blow. As part of the 100th birthday celebration of all things Ellington, RCA is reissuing all the solo projects done by his famous sidemen. This 12-song album from 1958 — appended with 11 more that appeared as singles from the year before — shows that Williams’ broad style was still mightily intact some 30 years after joining the Ellington fold. Unlike the other Ellington sidemen projects in this series, Williams performs on Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi with a full-blown big band, turning in swinging readings of such chestnuts as “Just in Time,” “Summit Ridge Drive,” and “My Old Flame.” Oddly, these big-band sides don’t honor the Duke musically except when Cootie and the band tackle old favorites like “Caravan.” The non-album tracks are a varied lot. “Rinky Dink” sounds like a Bill Doggett outtake (and features some uncharacteristically bluesy rock & roll guitar from Kenny Burrell!); other tracks skirt the place where blues and R&B meet jazz, at the end of a dark alley. But just listen to that closing blast from Williams on “New Concerto for Cootie,” which officially closed the original LP, and you’ll know that Cootie Williams remained a Duke man to the end. -AllMusic Review by Cub Koda

Tracklist:
1 Just In Time 3:28
2 Summit Ridge Drive 3:18
3 Nevertheless, I’m In Love With You 3:40
4 On The Street Where You Live 3:17
5 I’ll See You In My Dreams 3:19
6 Caravan 3:40

Personnel:
Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer
Bass – Eddie Safranski
Drums – Don Lamond, Osie Johnson
Guitar – Barry Galbraith, George Barnes, Tony Mottola
Piano – Hank Jones, Henry Rowland, Lou Stein
Saxophone – Abraham ‘Boomie’ Richman, Al Klink, Elwyn Fraser, Nick Caizza*, Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque, Stanley Webb
Trombone – Billy Byers, Bobby Byrne, Lou McGarity, Richard Hixson
Trumpet – Cootie Williams

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